Name: Handel: Tobit par Joachim Carlos Martini
Brand: Joachim Carlos Martini
SKU: 747313011377
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The big "Handel" at the top of the front cover may occasion confusion in the mind of the listener who can't remember any Handel oratorio called Tobit (or Tobias). That's because the work is a pastiche of Handel's music, fitted with new words and arranged into a facsimile of a coherent story drawn from the Book of Tobias in the Bible. The creator was John Christopher Smith, the son of a German copyist and longtime associate of Handel born Johann Christoph Schmidt who anglicized his name when he went to work for Handel in London. The tunes are drawn from a variety of lesser Handel oratorios (none is from Messiah or Judas Maccabeus), with recitatives written by Smith himself and various holes filled in with new music by the conductor of the present recording, Joachim Carlos Martini. The Junge Kantorei shows itself to be one of the profusion of regional German choirs with a startlingly warm sound and well-honed ensemble, and the Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra is smooth and ingratiating. The singers, especially tenor Knut Schoch as Tobit, betray little in the way of non-English accents and have a fine mastery of the bright, public Handelian oratorio style. The only fly in the ointment is the work itself, which is certainly of interest to those fascinated by the question of how Handel got from King George to your local bunch of Christian teens who put synthesized beats to Messiah every Christmas. But the work is a footnote to Handel, not Handel undiluted. "It will be seen," writes annotator Keith Anderson, "that the oratorio expects some previous knowledge of the story, as a number of elements in the original narrative are omitted." Which is another way of saying that this large work doesn't really hang together. Texts are available on the Naxos website, and the singers involved offer decent intelligibility.

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1. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part I: Ouverture

2. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part I Scene 1: Recitative: Happy Assyria (A Ninevite)

3. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part I Scene 1: Hear us, O Baal (Chorus)

4. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part I Scene 2: Recitative: How Soon Eclips'd is human joy (Tobit)

5. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part I Scene 2: O Lord, whom we adore (Tobit) - Hear from thy mercies seat (Chorus)

6. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part I Scene 3: Recitative: The Lord hath heard my pray'r (Tobias)

7. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part I Scene 3: Air: Will God, whose mercies ever flow (Tobias)

8. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part I Scene 3: Recitative: But Say, my Rightous Lord (Anna, Tobit)

9. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part I Scene 3: Duet: To Steal a Grave (Anna, Tobit)

10. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part I Scene 3: Recitative: Your Pardon (Tobias)

11. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part I Scene 3: Air: Boistrous Winds and Billows rolling (Tobias)

12. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part I Scene 3: Tyrants may a while presume (Chorus)

13. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part I Scene 4: Sinfonia

14. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part I Scene 4: Accompagnato: Ah, Wretched Sarah! (Sarah)

15. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part I Scene 4: Air: Paid be my Adoration (Sarah)

16. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part I Scene 4: Recitative: Be comforted, my Daughter (Raguel)

17. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part I Scene 4: Air: The Lord Sends his Thunders (Raguel)

18. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part I Scene 4: All Pow'r in Heav'n above or Earth beneath (Chorus)

19. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 1: Sinfonia

20. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 1: Accompagnato: Alas! To what Variety of Ills (Tobit)

21. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 1: Air: In great Jehovah (Tobit)

22. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 2: Recitative: Happy in thee, my Son (Tobit)

23. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 2: Air: Descend, kind Pity (Azarias)

24. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 2: Impartial heav'n (Chorus)

25. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 3: Recitative: If Blindness, Scorn, Contempt and Misery (A Ninevite)

26. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 3: O Baal, Monarch of the Skies! (Chorus)

27. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 3: Ritornello

28. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 4: Recitative: Pain'd as I am (Tobit, Anna)

29. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 4: Air: Thy pleasing Face (Anna)

30. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 4: Recitative: O thou bright sun! (Anna)

31. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 4: Air: With darkness Deep, as is my woe (Anna)

32. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 5: Sinfonia

33. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 5: Recitative: What caution is too great (Tobit, Azarias)

1. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 5: Air: Thou, God most high (Azarias)

2. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 5: Duet: Cease thy Anguish (Azarias, Tobias)

3. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 5: The Clouded Scene begins to clear (Chorus)

4. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 6: Sinfonia

5. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 6: Recitative: How happy, Daughter (Raguel, Sarah)

6. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 6: Air: To nobler Joys aspiring (Sarah)

7. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 7: Recitative: O Azarias, I must freely own (Tobias, Azarias)

8. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 8: Recitative: The gratefull Tribute of our thanks (Raguel)

9. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 8: Air: Let Songs of varied measure (Raguel)

10. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 8: Now Love, that everlasting Joy (Chorus)

11. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part II Scene 8: Happy, happy shall they be (Chorus)

12. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 1: Sinfonia

13. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 1: Accompagnato: Still am I persecuted (Tobit)

14. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 1: Air: Cease your Pride, deluded mortals (Tobit)

15. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 1: Tremble, Guilt, for Thou Shalt find (Chorus)

16. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 2: Sinfonia

17. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 2: Recitative: Hail, Tobit! (Raphael, Tobit)

18. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 2: Accompagnato: Henceforth through all the changing Scenes of Life (Anna)

19. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 2: Air: My Son, how happy in this thy Sweet Return (Anna)

20. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 2: Let none Despair (Chorus)

21. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 3: Accompagnato and Recitative: Blest be the God of Heav'n (Tobit, Raguel)

22. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 3: Air: May true Joy (Raguel)

23. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 3: Terzetto: More chearfull appearing (Anna, Tobias, Sarah)

24. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 3: Air: Watchful angels (Sarah)

25. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 3: Recitative: O King of Kings (Sarah)

26. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 3: Air: Allelujah (Sarah)

27. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 3: Swift our numbers (Chorus)

28. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 3: Recitative: 'Tis well (Raphael)

29. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 3: Accompagnato: O Nineveh! (Raphael)

30. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 3: Air: In Jehovah's awful sight (Raphael)

31. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 3: Symphony

32. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 3: Recitative: Saw ye the radiant Streams of Light (Tobit)

33. Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith for voice, choir and orchestra): Part III Scene 3: Ye servants of th'eternal King (Soloists, Chorus)

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